The panel experienced a short on one of the NAC’s. It also damaged some signals. So it was probably easiest to replace the whole thing and get it over with. It being Non-ADA compliant as well was a smaller Issue, pull stations that require more than 5 pounds of forces to pull. They were mounted really high of the ground. These are issues because we do have special needs kids at my school.
You know you like fire alarms when you can tell the age of a building by what system they have (guilty)!
I’m guilty of that as well! However, just because a building had alarms from a certain era, doesn’t necessarily mean that the building that they were installed in was built within said era.
For example, in the case of my high school, it was built in the mid 1950s, yet the oldest notification appliances and pull stations I saw were 7002T horn/strobes and BG-10 series pull stations respectively, both of which only goes as far as the 1980’s, thus leaving no trace of whatever was used in the original 1950’s fire alarm system. Therefore, the oldest fire alarm devices at my high school that I’ve seen were installed when it was about 30 years old.
You know you like fire alarms when you ask your friends to send you photos of NAs at school/work (guilty)
You play sounds on your keyboard to try to simulate alarm sounds. (guilty)